Tomorrow on One-Minute Book Reviews:Dumbing down the Man Booker Prize: At least one novel on the short list for this year’s Man Booker Prize is written at such a low level, according to the readability statistics on Microsoft Word, you might think the prize had turned into a children’s literature award. Did J. K. Rowling’s publishers know about this?

Later this week:Reconsidering Agatha Christie: Does she deserve the scorn she gets from critics?